[BC] CBS & NFL

[Bernie Courtney]

If you take into consideration the ability to order the NFL sunday ticket
package and get every game (minus those blacked out for each subscriber)
then theres' no comparison.

ESPN also has a parallel plan for college football as well.  My father could
sit in front of his TV from sunup saturday morning until about midnight
monday morning and have football on TV for just about all those hours.  I
think he was probably happier on the day that i put up his satellite dish
for him then on his wedding day...then again about 4 years after that he was
divorced, so I guess that answers that question :-)

bern

On 2/8/06, Alan Kline <akline at netins.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> But, IIRC, while there may have been a few choices on game days, (in the
> days of landline distribution) I didn't think that it comes close to what
> we have these days.  I'm sure someone will correct me if that's not
> accurate...
>
> ak
>
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 DHultsman5 at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Yes,  It was amazing that before the TV networks all
> went  satellite  all of
> > these regional split networks were all routed and set up  by AT&T longs
> lines
> > as ordered by CBS and NBC. I know many times in  Birmingham we could
> choose,
> > as viewers,  which game our local was going to  pickup by voting the
> week
> > before.  AT7T would give us the feed that was  voted on by the public.
> >
> > After the networks moved to satellite distribution,  AT&T stated  using
> the
> > excess bandwidth for other services and suddenly switching
> and  rerouting video
> > wasn't as readily available as before from AT&T.  More  satellite
> capacity
> > was needed.
>
>
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